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Life Of Plenty

from The Dreaming Season by Joshua and The Ruins

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Uhh let’s call this, uh, meeting to order. First item on the agenda…let’s open the floor. You!? Go ahead. I’m feeling lucky I don’t give a SHUCKS, eliding my words and slurring my verbs. If you’ve got ‘em, you might as well smoke ‘em now, ‘cause there’s no work and I don’t wanna work anyhow. These years will go down in the history books of American life as some of the worst. I know the world is filled with fools and greed, but how do you give people the axe, and put the knives in their backs, and call them the tools they need? If I’m bored and listless why not just start a business? I’ll sell my gold and take the vacation of a lifetime! I don’t qualify for welfare, so I’ll pretend I still have healthcare. If I’m worth nothing, then doing nothing is just fine with me. All the time I’ve spent chipping away like a slave to the 1%, I’ve gotten nothing and just bent over reverently. But why lament? A crumbling government and no way to pay for the rent!? From now on I’m living the life of plenty. Oh, thanks. Thanks for sharing. Anybody else? Ohhh yeah, you. In the middle, with the haircut? Yeah. With the funding cuts you know we’re all like “shucks!” There’s no denying, I should be applying, but what has trying in this tilted system gotten you so far? Are you lucid enough for the American dream resting on a pillow, bursting at the seams with student and medical debt? Place your bets! It’s time to wake up if you haven’t yet. In your bipartisan schism, I’ll drive a wedge of democratic socialism: we finally got ourselves a piece of the Occupy. What happened to my freedoms? If they don’t join you beat them. Habeas is nothing but a corpse since the Defense Bill was re-authorized. All the time I’ve spent chipping away like a slave to the 1%, I’ve gotten nothing and just bent over reverently. But why lament? A crumbling government and no way to pay for the rent?! From now on I guess we’re all living the life of plenty. Absolutely phenomenal! Well hey, thank you so much. Well before we move on, we need to have our sponsor up here to say a few words! Take it away! This is your lot, rented though it is, so accept and man your station. You need not cultivate a sociological imagination. Just remain convinced that where you are Lies in the merit of what you do, and don’t pull your bootstraps up so high as to glimpse an elevated view. For there can be no top to an even playing field! And surely no one is skimming off the top of your labor’s yield! Just keep your nose to the grindstone, and everything will be fine. And we’ll use it as your gravestone when you collapse from the assembly line. Hey! The elevated view is simply not for you.

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from The Dreaming Season, released April 23, 2019

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Joshua and The Ruins Kansas City, Missouri

Joshua and The Ruins is the singer-songwriter music of Josh King. This website is the home of ALL his music--indie folk, progressive metal, video game music, experimental noise, classical Gregorian chant. Roll the dice and click on your new favorite song. :) ... more

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